Quotes About Diversity

Diversity really does matter. Inviting people into the conversation who make you uncomfortable is a very good idea.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

You have your words, and I have mine.

The more people and perspectives in your sphere of reference, the more likely good insights and opportunities will combine

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Faith cannot tell us who is right and who is wrong, because each will simply assert that his or her faith is the true one.

The Valley of Understanding: Here we all choose a different way and different rules to disobey.

En el caso de algunos estímulos semánticos, como "frontera", "inmigración" o "integración", la expectativa alimentaria del participante cultural adiestrado exitosamente está tan firmemente fijada, que la saliva invade de inmediato. Mientras esté mojado en los foros, se puede suponer que las secreciones se mantienen inofensivas.

sensibilización de minorías demasiado pequeñas y, más aún, como censura permanente a través de la policía lingüística inquisitiva.

Beliefs are things to be cherished but we cannot be intolerant of others whose beliefs we disagree with. That intolerance can lead to war and even murder.

for the adage was: 'I fear the man of one book.' Trying

These four mechanisms, (1) competition between groups, (2) competition within groups, (3) cultural distance between competing groups, and (4) cultural homogeneity within groups are not the only processes that can affect the spread of cooperation norms.

For many scientists, as Lyotard concedes, scientific knowledge is the only form of knowledge there is, but if so, how then do we understand fairy stories and law?

It's really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know 'em. We're all beautiful.

There was no shortage of perspectives. The noosphere seethed with scenarios ranging from utopian to apocalyptic.

Life evolves. Parasites evolve. Sex evolves to counter the parasites. Shuffles the genes so the parasites have to shoot for a moving target. Everything else—species diversity, density-dependence, everything—it all follows from those three laws. You get a self-replicating string past a certain threshold, it's like a nuclear reaction.

there's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all survival strategy

ALL KINDS OF ANIMALS COMING HERE. OCCASIONAL DEMONS TOO. —Ian Anderson, Catfish Rising

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.

A secret lab is considered by many to be the physical manifestation of a spark's mind. Thus they tend to be rather individualistic. Some are spotlessly clean; some are filled with dangerous trash. Some are ruthlessly efficient; some are filled with suicidal deathtraps. Needless to say, sparks are usually vocally dismissive of the labs of others, while surreptitiously making notes about things they'd wished they'd thought of themselves.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

The various deities worshiped over the course of human history have very little in common except that all of them have an easily expressed identity and a clearly articulated mission statement.

I had only one hard-and-fast rule: avoid interstates. They are predictable and boring, and their uniformity somehow erases changes in landscape; you can drive six hundred miles, from forests into desert, and feel that you haven't gone anywhere. In a sense, you haven't. You have no idea about the lives of the people in the towns and cities you've bypassed at seventy miles an hour. *